- Accession Number:
- 2017.8.13
- Summary/Description:
- Original two piece telescoping black cardboard shipping carton with rivet contruction and metal reinforced corners, printed label on side, "Hungerford, Edward/Wells Fargo/in 16 r." White paper label in print on side B and black label in braille on side A, legend reads in black ink "Talking Book/Solely For The Use Of The Blind/Provided by the U.S. Government Through the Library of Congress/Recorded and Manufactured by/American Printing House for the Blind/Licensed under Dyer Patents/In 16 Records/APH 18741/Wells Fargo/Advancing the American Frontier/by Edward Hungerford/Copyright, 1949, by Wells Fago and Company/Read by Morris Flournoy/Recorded 1950/By Permission of the Publishers,/Random House, Inc./American Printing House for the Blind/Louisville, KY." (Note a five lined stamp has been inked over "Provided by the U.S. Government Through the Library of Congress.") [Narrator] Flournoy, Morris Records are numbered APH 18741 through APH 18756.
- Narrator:
- Flournoy, Morris
- Author:
- Hungerford, Edward
- History/Provenance:
- Donor found these in his Minnesota high school while gathering props for a play as a student, took them home, and kept them through several moves. Other books in the set are stamped Minneapolis Braille and Sightsaving Class.
- Credit Line:
- Gift of Michael P. Lucas, 2017.8.
- Publish Date:
- 1950
- Printer:
- American Printing House for the Blind
- Place Printed:
- Louisville, KY
- Date Printed:
- 1950
- Subjects:
- Recreational reading Literature Talking books
- Physical Description:
- 16 sound discs : rigid vinyl, 11 13/16 in. diameter; telescoping cardboard shipping carton, 13.375 x 13.375 x 2.375 in.
